InfoWars Cannot Stop Covering Its Own Damages Trial

InfoWars Cannot Stop Covering Its Own Damages Trial

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjkkzd/infowars-cannot-stop-covering-its-own-damages-trial

“I gotta go down to court, where I’ve already been found guilty by a judge for free speech,” Alex Jones declared on Monday afternoon, in the midst of his endless InfoWars broadcast. Lately, in a horrifically meta turn of events, a good chunk of Infowars’ programming has been focused on the ongoing Texas damages trial against Jones and the company which will determine how much Infowars must pay Sandy Hook parents for repeatedly calling the mass shooting that killed their children a hoax and a false flag. (It is merely the first of several such trials.)

That programming and what’s going on in court diverged in a particularly harrowing way on Monday. In court, a forensic psychiatrist testified about the deep trauma and ongoing psychological difficulties that Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis suffer after the loss of their son Jesse and the lies told about him on Infowars and elsewhere. Meanwhile, InfoWars continued to present the case as a targeted blow to free speech, and what it’s ghoulishly referring to as “the murder of due process.”